I have found yet another way to shoot myself in the foot it seems. For reasons I can't fathom (I've really really have tried to figure this out) for all of my aircraft that I have been flying I have lost the ability (which used to be there) to move the camera around when in F2. Now I go to F2 and have a view from the front or side of the aircraft, and can't move the camera around at all, just locked in that view.
I just bought a couple of new aircraft on which I haven't made any bindings whatsoever, and if I start an instant session like takeoff and hit F2 I can fly the camera to wherever I'd like, as I'm used to, so things start out ok with a virgin AC. The num pad keys still control the camera in external view as I assume they should (never used nm pad before as I was just a mousey guy but I thought I should test ). I sure hope that I am missing something simple
Duh, I was chasing the problem under the All list, and nothing shows up on that list under Mouse, for an AC that allows mouse control of the camera (which I was taking as an example of a working setup) in F2 or an AC that does not. Of course mouse input (or lack thereof) is an AXIS input. Once I looked in that list, and realized that Cam H View, Cam V view, and Cam Zoom were blank, while they should be Mouse_x, Mouse_Y, and Mouse_Z respectively, the problem was solved.